Ben Stiller Asserts Hollywood Is Meritocratic, Rejects Claims Of Hollywood Nepotism In Twitter Debate With Black List Founder Franklin Leonard

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Deadline, Sean Penn’s son Hopper had joined the project, which was co-directed by Spielberg and Stephen King’s son Owen King.A heated debate consequently arose between producer Franklin Leonard and Ben Stiller on the advantages that nepotism can bring within the film industry.“Hollywood’s a meritocracy, right?” Leonard wrote in a sarcastic tweet regarding the casting update.Hollywood's a meritocracy, right? https://t.co/jELCVujYyB— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) July 28, 2021Stiller, who is

A back-and-forth Twitter discussion between producer Franklin Leonard and Ben Stiller has opened up a discussion about nepotism in Hollywood.

A tweet from Ben Stiller kicked off a discussion on nepotism during Thursday’s edition of “The View”.

Ben Stiller is coming under fire on social media for downplaying the purported existence of favoritism in Hollywood after he came to the defense of a film project featuring several children of big-time Hollywood performers. The film at the center of the discussion is titled, "The Rightway." It is directed by Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Destry, and written by Stephen King’s son, Owen.The short film is also set to star Sean Penn’s son, Hopper, according to Deadline.

Destry Spielberg is speaking out in response to claims that she’s getting jobs in Hollywood because of nepotism.

Ethan Shanfeld Ben Stiller and Destry Spielberg, filmmaker and daughter of Steven Spielberg, took to Twitter to refute Hollywood nepotism in a debate with The Black List founder Franklin Leonard.On Tuesday, Leonard responded to a tweet announcing the cast of the short film “The Rightway,” which features Hopper Penn, an actor and the son of Sean Penn, and actor Brian D’Arcy James.

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